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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Japanese Armies on Move Again While League Council Stumbles Raskob Irritates the Drys National Political Gossip. By EDWARD W. PICKARD NEITHER Japan nor China was willing to accept the plaD de-Tised de-Tised by the League of Nations council coun-cil for an Inquiry Into the Slanehurian situation, and the ! , i S J twelve members of 1 that body made a further fur-ther attempt to draw up a scheme that would please both sides, but without apparent success. The salient point of this latter plan was the sending of a "committee "com-mittee of study" to Manchuria, only In stead of having an Gen. C. P. express mandate for Summerall investigating all of China as well as Manchuria, as the recent Japanese proposal provided, the committee would be instructed to investigate in-vestigate Manchuria, and to include China if they think it advisable. As demanded by the Japanese, the committee com-mittee would have no power to in-vestigate in-vestigate troop movements or to interfere inter-fere otherwise with the war, nor to Intervene in any direct negotiations between Tokyo and Nanking that might be opened. Dr. Alfred Sze, in an uncompromis- ' ing communication to the council, told how China looked on this scheme. He said : "An Inquiry without at the same time providing for immediate cessation cessa-tion of hostilities and the withdrawal of Japanese forces becomes a mere device to condone and perpetuate for a more or less indefinite period the unjustifiable occupation of China's territory ter-ritory by an aggressor who has already al-ready virtually attained his unlawful object while these discussions have been going on. In the circumstances you will readily see it is quite impos sible for me to consider the proposal ' in question until the basis above mentioned men-tioned has been adequately laid down." When and if a committee of inquiry is named, its chairman may be Gen. Charles P. Summerall, former chief of staff of the United States army. He has been suggested for this place by the Japanese and probably would be acceptable to China. Still another plan for solving the Manchurian problem was to be submitted sub-mitted to the council by the Nanking government, according to Dr. Welling ton Koo, who has just been appointed Chinese foreign minister and assumed his new duties. v DOWN on the southern coast of Manchuria is a small strip in which is situated the city of Chin-chow, Chin-chow, and that It still in the hands of China or was last week. But evidently the Japanese decided to take over this area also, for Doctor Sze gave the league coun- cil information that the troops of the mikado mi-kado were moving south from Mukden In armored cars with the intention of crush- ing the opposition in ff Clunchow. This ac-tion ac-tion was explained by Gn- Jlro the Japanese on the Minami ground that their interests there were menaced by bandits, but the Chinese assert the activities of bandits there and elsewhere in Manchuria are promoted pro-moted by Japan to excuse their militant mil-itant course. Despite reports of dissension In the Japanese cabinet, It is apparent that the militarists, led by Gen. Jiro Minan.i, minister of war, are having their own way. They will not permit withdrawal of the troops from Manchuria, Man-churia, nor are they afraid of exasperating exas-perating the Soviet Russian government govern-ment to the point of forceful action although always assuring Moscow that Russian interests will not be endangered. en-dangered. Seeming efforts of the league council coun-cil In I'aris to put on the United Slates the onus of settling the Sino-Japancse Sino-Japancse affair are not meeting with success. There has been talk there and in Washington of Invoking an economic boycott of Japan if the Tokyo government persists in refusing to keep the peace, and our government has been approached on this subject. "The league is asking us to commit ourselves before It makes up its own mind what it wants us to be committed commit-ted to," an official in Washington declared. de-clared. "We're not going to do it" COMPLETION of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway in 1032 instead of in May, with a view to assisting business, industry and employment, was asked of the federal government by the Mississippi Valley association :it its annual convention in St. Louis. '. Miators Glenn and Lewis of Illinois and many others spoke in favor of speeding up the construction work, 'ind argued that the objections raised by the army engineers to a quick finish fin-ish ice and possible Hoods would not be considered valid if the waterway water-way were a private enterprise instead of a government project. The associ ation voted In favor of a federal bond issue to carry on the work rapidly. Senator Glenn recently urged upon President Hoover and Secretary of War Hurley the need of early completion com-pletion a! the work, and said he violated vio-lated no confidence In declaring both of them were in favor of this course. HEARINGS by the senate lobby committee were resumed In Washington, Wash-ington, and John Holland, the committee's com-mittee's chief investigator, told an in teresting story of deals iD sugar stock by two United States senators Watson Wat-son of Indiana and Davis of Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. Both of them, Holland said, bought stock of sugar companies operated oper-ated by Bror G. Dahlberg of Chicago, giving their notes in payment, and later turned in the stock for considerable consider-able paper profits, which afterwards disappeared. Other prominent men, he said, also bought Dahlberg stock and lost, these including Al Smith, John J. Raskob and Senator Moses. Holland told the committee he could find no evidence that Senator Davis had lobbied for a high sugar tariff. Dahlberg in Chicago denied that there was anything unusual or reprehensible in the transactions with Watson and Davis, and also declared false the rumor that he had made a gift of $10,-000 $10,-000 to Davis. STIRRING up the animals is a favorite fa-vorite occupation of John J. Raskob, Ras-kob, the dynamic chairman of the Democratic national committee. His latest achievement in I 1 L n that way is the sending send-ing out of a questionnaire question-naire to SS.5S0 contributes con-tributes to the party campaign fund of 192S to get their views on whether the Democratic Demo-cratic national convention con-vention should declare de-clare for resubmission resubmis-sion of the prohibition prohibi-tion issue to the peo- , , , . pie. They are also J. J. Raskob , , . . . . asked what they think on other matters of party policy, pol-icy, but the liquor proposition is the main one. Needless to say, Mr. Raskob himself is thoroughly wet, and as be says in his letter to contributors, he believes the time has come "for the Democratic party to face this issue squarely and to present to the people a definite plan under the policy of states' rights and local self-government." The move was a follow-up to nls presentation of the 'home-rule plan for liquor control last March to the national na-tional committee. He evoked then a bitter outburst, particularly from southern leaders, many of whom felt deliberate injection of the prohibition Issue was a fine way to wreck the party's 1932 prospects. This time the drys again responded with strong protests. Their board of strategy, of which Edwin C. Dinwiddie is executive secretary, issued a statement state-ment which said "wet millionaires" were bringing pressure to bear on both parties to make their platforms wet by threatening to withhold contributions in the 1932 contest. Some New Yorkers saw in the Raskob Ras-kob questionnaire a deliberate effort to split the support of Franklin D. Roose- velt, who is still the leading contender for the Presidential nomination. Senators Sen-ators Robinson of Arkansas, Hull of Tennqssee and Connally of Texas, Interviewed In-terviewed in Washington, decried Ras-kob's Ras-kob's efforts. The Democratic national committee has been called to meet January 9, and this matter undoubtedly will be a major ma-jor topic of discussion at its session. REPRESENTATIVE GARNER of Texas, prospective speaker of the next. Ii.iuse, partook of a "harmony breakfast" with John F. Curry, clrief-.ain clrief-.ain of Tammany Hall, the other day and it is said persuaded him to abandon aban-don his plan to have a member of the Tammany delegation made floor leader. The inter-party truce was completed when Representative John McDutlie of Alabama withdrew from the race for the floor leadership. Immediately thereafter Representative Henry T. Rainey seventy-one-year-old veteran from Illinois, publicly announced his candidacy and word went down the line that he had the active support of Representative Garner. Mr. Rainey claimed he already had been pledged 133 of the 217 Democratic votes. Democratic control of the house was clinched by the election of R. M Kleberg, Kle-berg, Democrat, In the Fourteenth Texas district to succeed the late Harry M. Wurzbach who was the state's only Republican congressman. SPEEDING toward Chicago with hundreds of entries for the International Inter-national Live Stock show, a long special spe-cial train was wrecked near Lexington. Mo., by spreading rails. Seven men were killed and others injured. Many flne horses known in the show rings : of the country were destroyed. The "million dollar train" was carrying the stock from the American Royal Live Stock show in Kansas City. MEMBERS of the senate who are classed as progressive Republicans Repub-licans were reported to be organizing for opposition to the re election of Senator Sen-ator George H. Moses of New Hampshire Hamp-shire as president pro tempore of the senate. They are said to be actuated especially by Moses' attack on them a year ago, when he dubbed them "sons of the wild jackass." Nye of North Dakota, Norris of Nebraska and Couzens of Michigan were supposed to be leading the movement and it was believed they would support Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington for the place held by Moses. The regular Republican leaders feared all this might result in allowing the Democrats Demo-crats to assume control of the senate as well as of the house. PROGRESSIVE and independent members of the house expect to wield control of its actions, and at the cal. of Representative LaGuardia of New York those in that category, both Republicans and Democrats, met Wednesday in Washington to make their plans and formulate their demands. de-mands. The invitation to this conference, confer-ence, which was signed also by Paul J. Kvale of Minnesota, the lone Farm-er-Laborite, said that even though the Democrats might elect tie speaker, neither they nor the Republicans could hope for a working majority without the aid of the Independents. One of the demands of the progressives is liberalization lib-eralization of the house rules so that "boss control" may be eliminated. THERE is an unfilled vacancy among federal judgeships in the Chicago division of the eastern Illinois Illi-nois district, and George B. Q. Johnson, John-son, United States district attorney there, is strongly urged for the place by Senator Otis F. Glenn, Illinois. The appointment of Mr. Johnson would be political in some ways, but It also would be approved as a reward for the excellent work he has done in the line of prosecuting gangsters and graft- ing politicians for Gerf E' Q" evasion of their in- Jh"s" come taxes. Senator Glenn denied that he had yet made any recommendation recommen-dation to the President, but other supporters sup-porters of Mr. Johnson were insistent that he should be appointed now, though he has three more years to serve of his second term as district attorney and Mr. Hoover, it was reported, re-ported, wants him to finish his term. If Mr. Johnson is elevated to the bench, his successor is likely to be Dwight H. Green who, though only thirty-four years old, has been one of the district attorney's most efficient and valued assistants in the prosecution prosecu-tion of tax dodgers, acting as solicitor for the revenue bureau. IF THE Democrats in senate and house follow the leadership of Senator Sen-ator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas)" their leader in the senate, they will oppose any increase in surtaxes and any great increase in any of the government gov-ernment levies. Robinson says such action ac-tion by congress would "approach confiscation" con-fiscation" and would be likely to prolong pro-long instead of relieve the depression. depres-sion. He proposes instead a bond issue. Senator Robinson argues that taxes should be raised solely to obtain revenue rev-enue and not for the purpose "of distributing dis-tributing wealth or reducing large fortunes." for-tunes." He is opposed to a general sales tax, but would consent to a sales levy on luxuries. He said in his statement state-ment : "The most practical method to diminish di-minish unemployment is to revive industry. in-dustry. Increase in taxation is a poor method for overcoming depression. In other words, while increases may be unavoidable they cannot be expected to contribute to the forces calculated to restore confidence and courage in the sphere of investments and enterprises." enter-prises." He added that while he recognized the necessity of balancing the budget, he did not look for a great reduction in public expenditures. THOUGH he is now eighty-eight years old, Gen. A. W. Greely is still actively interested in the exploration of polar regions and he has just been t. " V ' V; appointed chairman of the national committee commit-tee that sponsors a new American expedition expe-dition which will start for the Arctic next June to spend two years on Ellesmere island, the northernmost northern-most land on the globe. Capt. Flavel M. Williams will be commander of the party, and Dr. H. B. Gen. A. w. Marjs wiu be )ts scl ee y entific director, and the gray-bearded leader of the ill-fated ill-fated Greely expedition of 1SS1-1SS4 is helping them make their plans. They will have radios, airplanes and modern comforts in exploring the region where General Greely met with disaster dis-aster and where eighteen of his party starved or froze to death. VJOTEWORTHY among the deaths 1- ' of the week were those of Dr. I Sam Small of Atlanta, noted editor j and evangelist; Louis Loucheur, for-! mer cabinet minister and once rated as the richest man in France; O. C. j Simonds of Chicago, famous landscape ' architect and park designer, and Al- ! bert II. Harris, financial head of the New York Central lines. j ((c). 1531. Western Newspaper Union.) I |